The Unfortunate URL
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Some old, some new. So sue me.
Who Represents:
www.whorepresents.comCampanal Restaurant:
www.campanal.comChoose Spain Travel:
www.choosespain.comTherapists:
www.therapists.comPen Island:
www.penisland.netThe Italian Power Generator Company:
www.powergenitalia.comSpeed of Art designers:
www.speedofart.comThe Children’s Laughter Foundation:
www.Childrenslaughter.comAmerican’s Scrap Metal:
www.americanscrapmetal.comThe Black Hat E-Book:
www.blackhatebook.comThe LA Drape Company:
www.ladrape.co.uk
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I never understood the technical community's intense hatred of spaces.
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@CreatedToDislikeThis Spaces in URLs tend to be... tricksy. Much better to use hyphens ;)
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@RaceProUK %20 is perfectly cromulent!
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@dcon Yep. Problem is, no-one wants URLs that look like this:
- www.who%20represents.com
- www.choose%20spain.com
- www.pen%20island.net
- www.powergen%20italia.com
- www.speed%20of%20art.com
- www.Childrens%20laughter.com
- www.american%20scrap%20metal.com
- www.black%20hat%20ebook.com
- www.la%20drape.co.uk
They look better this way anyway:
- www.who-represents.com
- www.choose-spain.com
- www.pen-island.net
- www.powergen-italia.com
- www.speed-of-art.com
- www.Childrens-laughter.com
- www.american-scrap-metal.com
- www.black-hat-ebook.com
- www.la-drape.co.uk
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You missed out the classic, the one that ended up adding a hyphen
www.expertsexchange.com
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@RaceProUK said in The Unfortunate URL:
@dcon Yep. Problem is, no-one wants URLs that look like this:
- www.who%20represents.com
- www.choose%20spain.com
- www.pen%20island.net
- www.powergen%20italia.com
- www.speed%20of%20art.com
- www.Childrens%20laughter.com
- www.american%20scrap%20metal.com
- www.black%20hat%20ebook.com
- www.la%20drape.co.uk
Those aren't legal domain names anyway.
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@RaceProUK said in The Unfortunate URL:
@CreatedToDislikeThis Spaces in URLs tend to be... tricksy. Much better to use hyphens ;)
But is there any reason they should be? I expect it's all just people traditionally liking whitespace-delimited fields in their configuration files and CLI commands.
After all, there turned out not to be a problem having domains start with a digit (or consist of only digits) either.
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@CreatedToDislikeThis said in The Unfortunate URL:
I never understood the technical community's intense hatred of spaces.
More like an intense hatred of abandoning something that hasn't made sense or been necessary for 20+ years. Much like programs which shit themself if installed in a directory with a space in the name.
There's no legitimate technical reason why a web browser couldn't recognize
http://www.the daily wtf.com
as a valid URL.
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powergenitalia
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@CreatedToDislikeThis said in The Unfortunate URL:
I never understood the technical community's intense hatred of spaces.
When you use stringly typed scripting tools, escaping spaces begins to look like work. Since technical people are lazy (or else we'd have real jobs), they'd rather not support something convenient than fix their tooling.
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@Kian said in The Unfortunate URL:
Since technical people are lazy (or else we'd have real jobs)
I resemble that remark.
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@El_Heffe said in The Unfortunate URL:
There's no legitimate technical reason why a web browser couldn't recognize http://www.the daily wtf.com as a valid URL.
The www was already abandoned, everything should be https and TLDs are silly. Should be just "The daily WTF" in the browser address.
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@groo said in The Unfortunate URL:
Should be just "The daily WTF" in the browser address.
Sounds like you're trying to invent "AOL Keywords" all over again...
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Unfortunate URL:
@groo said in The Unfortunate URL:
Should be just "The daily WTF" in the browser address.
Sounds like you're trying to invent "AOL Keywords" all over again...
To be fair, I can access the JIRA instance for my company by going to http://jira/.
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@ben_lubar said in The Unfortunate URL:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Unfortunate URL:
@groo said in The Unfortunate URL:
Should be just "The daily WTF" in the browser address.
Sounds like you're trying to invent "AOL Keywords" all over again...
To be fair, I can access the JIRA instance for my company by going to http://jira/.
I got you one shorter than that: Try
jira/
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Unfortunate URL:
@ben_lubar said in The Unfortunate URL:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Unfortunate URL:
@groo said in The Unfortunate URL:
Should be just "The daily WTF" in the browser address.
Sounds like you're trying to invent "AOL Keywords" all over again...
To be fair, I can access the JIRA instance for my company by going to http://jira/.
I got you one shorter than that: Try
jira/
I assume in this case,
http://
==1
?
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@ben_lubar said in The Unfortunate URL:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Unfortunate URL:
@ben_lubar said in The Unfortunate URL:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Unfortunate URL:
@groo said in The Unfortunate URL:
Should be just "The daily WTF" in the browser address.
Sounds like you're trying to invent "AOL Keywords" all over again...
To be fair, I can access the JIRA instance for my company by going to http://jira/.
I got you one shorter than that: Try
jira/
I assume in this case,
http://
==1
?I don't understand your query. Please restate.
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@groo said in The Unfortunate URL:
The www was already abandoned, everything should be https and TLDs are silly. Should be just "The daily WTF" in the browser address.
YES!
Think of the fun that can be had by registering popular web searches.
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@groo Good logic, but you forgot an important part: those things let you recognise that this text string is a domain name/URL.
If you're advertising The Daily WTF on a magazine, for example, just writing "thedailywtf.com" at the bottom will let people know this is your website. Without a well known (arbitrary) identifier you'd have to explicitly write something like visit us at "The Daily WTF" which would be annoying.
But maybe we could adopt some syntax like "//domain name/"?
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06-12345678
06-87654321
thedailywtf
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@PleegWat said in The Unfortunate URL:
06-12345678
06-87654321
thedailywtfOk, the first is a phone, fine,
The second... a calculator? a taxicab door open? a bitten chocolate tablet ?
The third... I know !! A 'Puzzle Bubble' ball, right ?!For fuck sake, people, stop throwing stupid icons !
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@cabrito said in The Unfortunate URL:
The second... a calculator? a taxicab door open? a bitten chocolate tablet ?
I might be showing my age (to be higher than it actually is), but it's pretty clear to me that it's a fax machine
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@Luhmann
Foul!
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@RaceProUK I'm pretty sure back when such icons were common, different icons than these were used for both phone and fax. Especially for fax I was like 'It's fa_fax it'll be OK'.
I have actually seen websites in such lists with a globe icon.
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It's not unfortunate in the same way as the above examples but Database Skill always brings a smile to my face.
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@RaceProUK said in The Unfortunate URL:
but it's pretty clear to me that it's a fax machine
Context helps. If the middle line was on its own, would the symbol still be interpreted as a fax machine or as a phone?
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@loopback0 Fax machine: that's clearly a piece of paper emerging from the top of it.
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@RaceProUK said in The Unfortunate URL:
clearly
At the size it appears on my screen, it could just as easily be a sim card with a caterpillar next to it
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@RaceProUK said in The Unfortunate URL:
@loopback0 Fax machine: that's clearly a piece of paper emerging from the top of it.
At a small enough size that could be a screen with a curved corner.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Unfortunate URL:
@ben_lubar said in The Unfortunate URL:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Unfortunate URL:
@groo said in The Unfortunate URL:
Should be just "The daily WTF" in the browser address.
Sounds like you're trying to invent "AOL Keywords" all over again...
To be fair, I can access the JIRA instance for my company by going to http://jira/.
I got you one shorter than that: Try
jira/
In my experience, browsers tend to like to assume that you actually meant to search if you do that.
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@hungrier said in The Unfortunate URL:
@RaceProUK said in The Unfortunate URL:
clearly
At the size it appears on my screen, it could just as easily be a sim card with a caterpillar next to it
It kind of looks like a beer mug with a big head of foam spilling out the top. That could just be Friday afternoon talking, though.
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In the UK I have seen ads that don't mention a web address at all, instead something like "Search card clash" is printed / said. They must've got quite some confidence in their SEO.
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@anotherusername said in The Unfortunate URL:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Unfortunate URL:
@ben_lubar said in The Unfortunate URL:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Unfortunate URL:
@groo said in The Unfortunate URL:
Should be just "The daily WTF" in the browser address.
Sounds like you're trying to invent "AOL Keywords" all over again...
To be fair, I can access the JIRA instance for my company by going to http://jira/.
I got you one shorter than that: Try
jira/
In my experience, browsers tend to like to assume that you actually meant to search if you do that.
In mine, they forget the assumption so long as you have that slash (and don't have spaces). Works on IE11, Edge, Chrome. Not sure about anything else at the moment since it's all uninstalled....
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@AlexMedia said in The Unfortunate URL:
In the UK I have seen ads that don't mention a web address at all, instead something like "Search card clash" is printed / said. They must've got quite some confidence in their SEO.
There are numerous ads like that in Australia. Surely at some point we'll see a competitor engaging in shenanigans to take advantage. (Well, I'm sure it will happen. We won't necessarily see it, I suppose. There'd be strong incentives to make sure it wasn't seen.)
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@El_Heffe said in The Unfortunate URL:
American’s Scrap Metal:
www.americanscrapmetal.comAmericans crap metal? But all metal is crap anyways.
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@loopback0 said in The Unfortunate URL:
that could be a screen with a curved corner
Apple Lawyers on standby
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@dse said in The Unfortunate URL:
@El_Heffe said in The Unfortunate URL:
American’s Scrap Metal:
www.americanscrapmetal.comAmericans crap metal? But all metal is crap anyways.
Your sentences don't make much sense when combined. Here are a couple of proposed corrections:
@dse said in The Unfortunate URL:
@El_Heffe said in The Unfortunate URL:
American’s Scrap Metal:
www.americanscrapmetal.comAmericans crap metal? That's gotta be uncomfortable.
@dse said in The Unfortunate URL:
@El_Heffe said in The Unfortunate URL:
American’s Scrap Metal:
www.americanscrapmetal.comAmericans' crap metal? But all metal is crap anyways.
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@Luhmann said in The Unfortunate URL:
@RaceProUK said in The Unfortunate URL:
a fax machine
WHAAARGBBBL!
At least pagers were never a thng here so I don't have to deal with that shit.
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@RaceProUK said in The Unfortunate URL:
that's clearly a piece of paper emerging from the top of it.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Unfortunate URL:
@ben_lubar said in The Unfortunate URL:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Unfortunate URL:
@groo said in The Unfortunate URL:
Should be just "The daily WTF" in the browser address.
Sounds like you're trying to invent "AOL Keywords" all over again...
To be fair, I can access the JIRA instance for my company by going to http://jira/.
I got you one shorter than that: Try
jira/
won't work in all cases. for chrome if you havent visited the
jira
server before in chrome it won't try thehttp://
prefix, it will instead google the url.once you've visited once your suggestion will work and in fact can be shortened to just
jira
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Just saw this ad on a webcomic:
That's some wonky syntax highlighting. Also, I would prefer to earn something other than members.